Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessity of the Wet vote if the G. O. P. hoped to carry the North and East. Wearing rubber boots he waded in against the faction of his party that still wanted to pussyfoot. Finally the President was convinced. He consented to the broad proposition that his party should somehow resubmit the issue to the people...
...Scripps-Howard editor of the Washington Daily News, she has seen great political and social lions grow from little cubs. The results of her bright-eyed observation she sets down in an excited, exciting style. With its high-pressure people, its journalistic plot, her rather amateurish novel somehow manages to be one of the most characteristically U. S. productions of the year...
...Spitfire's muscles used that jaw as a fulcrum to throw his teeth and claws into action, anywhere, against this strange enemy. Somehow the leopard swung himself around the shark's head . . . quickly discovering two vulnerable resting places for his terrible claws-one under the shark's right eye, which Spitfire ripped out-the other in an opening in the gills, which he clawed through with a single gouging sweep. . . ." The shark let go, but before Spitfire could escape another shark got him, and the last Mr. Buck saw of him they were tearing him to pieces...
...small man, except in size. There is no cowardice, no fear in him. . . . What's that other defendant's name? Oh, yes, Lord. It almost popped my mind. I don't think it's been mentioned here more than once. I remember Jones because he got drunk and somehow that appealed to me. What have these two boys done that 20 years should be taken out of their lives? . . This beautiful island, halfway from Asia, mother of all, and America, newest...
...Somehow, Slitter's Gold was dropped and it was decided that I should do Broken Lullaby. But they said, 'You mustn't shoot any dead bodies in the picture.' Then I tackled-Dreiser's An American Tragedy. . . . The script I made for it had Dreiser's approval. . . . Hollywood wanted just a police story, so I said, 'Why the hell pay Dreiser? Just get some clippings...